Fourth of July pictures

I tried posting the pictures on the post about our Fourth of July trip but it didn't work so here are a few.

There's a deer

July 4th Weekend at the Cabin

These past few days have been filled with tons of action, surprise, and fun for the whole family. On Thursday (the 4th) we left for the cabin at about 1:30. We arrived at around 4:00. At first we unpacked everything, and then we played a few games of Kubb. We then had some fun playing paintball for the first time, which we ended up doing all three days. Dinner was great, even though it was just simple tin-foil dinners. During that night, we decided to all sleep on the deck. Well, it was just our luck when it started raining at about 2 in the morning, forcing us to sleep inside where it was stuffy. The worst part was that we couldn't open the windows because the rain got inside. Well, once we braved that through, we slept well and woke up the next morning. Our breakfast was a nice mountain man breakfast, which was very filling. That was followed by more paintball and such. We then went to our cousin's house in Springville to have lunch and take them all back to spend time with us at the cabin. During the time they were there, a huge storm cam through in two waves and was pretty booming. After that, several of our cousins left, and only two of them slept over with their dad. That next day, we played some more paintball before we left, and if was pretty awesome. There were welts and everything all around, especially because John and I decided to play with just a t-shirt and shorts. Anyway, it was great to spend the weekend down at the cabin, even through all the rough storms.

Gold Cup Doubleheader at Rio Tinto Stadium

Cameron (a friend of ours) invited us to the gold cup at rio tinto.  It was a doubleheader with the first game being the US men's national team reserves vs Cuba national team.  We got there just before halftime and as we were driving up the score was 1-0 for Cuba.  When we walked in everyone started cheering and we soon discovered that Landon Donovan from team USA had scored.  So that left it tied 1-1 at halftime.  A couple minutes later, a field crasher jumped the wall and ran over to our side of the stadium.  Everyone was cheering him on and it was really funny!  Soon after, the security came and got him.  Shortly after the game started up again, corona from team USA ( I don't know his first name) send a dart right into the back of the net. 2-1 for USA.  It went all downhill for Cuba after that.  Chris wondolowski scored (assist from Kyle beckerman from real salt lake) and later scored another.  He also had two more opportunities to score but didn't finish.  Final score 4-1 for USA.  The next game was Costa Rica vs Belize.  It was a very boring game to be honest.  I don't have much to say about it except for that the only goal scored was an own goal in favor of Costa Rica.  I was cheering for Costa Rica because Alvaro saborio from real salt lake was on the team, so I was pretty happy, but didn't care too much for the game overall. Here are some pictures.

The field crasher in the middle of the picture

Days of 47 Youth Parade

John and I are in the marching band for Kearns High, so we had a parade this morning. We got to the high school at 7:15, and left at around 7:30. The parade didn't start until 10:00, so that was a little long just to wait. We warmed up and everything, and finally got in line. We were 32nd in order, which is pretty early for a parade. The two songs we play for the parades are "Armed Forces on Parade," and "American Scenes," both of which are compilations of patriotic songs. We only had to march a total of 4 blocks, which took about 15 minutes in total. I was surprised that it was that short. We only played through each song about three times, and then everything was done. After we finished everything ran smoothly, and we left soon after. When we got back, we got some cold water and cookies which was really nice because I'm sure hardly anyone ate breakfast before coming. We have two more parades this year, one in Bountiful and then the Kearns Hometown Parade.

Ensign peak July 17 2013

So for mutual this past Wednesday we went to hike ensign peak.  It was a very short and easy hike but there was a lot of cool scenery from up top.  There was a bit of a storm so that made it even better.  I got some pictures of some of it and hopefully they turned out well.